The 'narrative turn' in the humanities, which expanded the study of
narrative to various disciplines, has found a correlate in the
'medial turn' in narratology. Long restricted to language-based
literary fiction, narratology has found new life in the recognition
that storytelling can take place in a variety of media, and often
combines signs belonging to different semiotic categories: visual,
auditory, linguistic and perhaps even tactile. The essays gathered
in this volume apply the newly gained awareness of the expressive
power of media to particular texts, demonstrating the productivity
of a medium-aware analysis. Through the examination of a wide
variety of different media, ranging from widely studied, such as
literature and film, to new, neglected, or non-standard ones, such
as graphic novels, photography, television, musicals, computer
games and advertising, they address some of the most fundamental
questions raised by the medial turn in narratology: how can
narrative meaning be created in media other than language; how do
different types of signs collaborate with each other in so-called
'multi-modal works', and what new forms of narrativity are made
possible by the emergence of digital media.
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